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Bronze cast of Susan Heywood Taft by Daniel Chester French. Cast measures 16" tall by 11.5" wide. French is one of the most acclaimed American sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th century. Best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Memorial , Washington, DC. Notable works : Minute Man (Concord) (fr) at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, (1874). French was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, to Henry Flagg French (1813Ð1885), a lawyer, judge, Assistant US Treasury Secretary and author of a book that described the French drain,[1] and his wife Anne Richardson.[2] In 1867, French moved with his family to Concord, Massachusetts,[3] where he was a neighbor and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Alcott family. His decision to pursue sculpting was influenced by Louisa May Alcott's sister May Alcott. Bust of Major General William Francis Bartlett at Memorial Hall, Harvard University, (1881) The John Harvard Monument, Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (1884) Lewis Cass, National Statuary Hall, Washington D.C., (1889) Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell (1889), Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. Thomas Starr King monument San Francisco, California, (1891) Statue of the Republic, the colossal centerpiece of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. His 24-foot gilt-bronze reduced version made in 1918 survives in Chicago.[13] John Boyle O'Reilly Memorial, intersection of Boylston Street and Westland Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, (1897) Rufus Choate memorial, Old Suffolk County Court House, Boston, Massachusetts, (1898) Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, on the perimeter wall of Central Park, at 5th Avenue at 70th Street, opposite the Frick Collection, in New York City, (1900) Commodore George H. Perkins Monument at the New Hampshire State House, Concord, New Hampshire (1902) Alma Mater (1903), on the campus of Columbia University in New York City Wendell Phillips Memorial, Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts America, statue outside the National Museum of the American Indian at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, Manhattan, NYC (1907) Casting Bread Upon the Waters - George Robert White Memorial, Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts Samuel Spencer, first president of Southern Railway, located in front of Goode Building (Norfolk Southern offices) on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, (1909). August Meyer Memorial, 10th and The Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri (1909) Statue of General James Oglethorpe located in Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia (1910) Standing Lincoln at the Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, (1912) Brooklyn and Manhattan, seated figures from the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, (1915) Minuteman, Henry Bacon designer, Jno. Williams, Inc. (NY) founder, Danville, Illinois. (1915) The Spirit of Life, memorial to Spencer Trask, in Saratoga Springs, New York at Congress Park, 1915 Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial (1914-22), executed by the Piccirilli Brothers.[14] Samuel Francis du Pont Memorial Fountain, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. (1921) Alfred Tredway White Memorial, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Henry Bacon architect (1921) Russell Alger Memorial Fountain, Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan (1921). Gale Park War Memorial & Park, Exeter, New Hampshire (1922) Bust of Washington Irving and reliefs of Boabdil and Rip Van Winkle for the Washington Irving Memorial, Irvington, New York, (1927) Beneficence, Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. (1930) William Henry Seward Memorial in Florida, New York (1930)[15] Death and the Wounded Soldier aka Death and Youth, The Chapel of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire James Woods, ÒUncle JimmyÓ Green, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. (1924) Gen. William Franklin Draper, Draper Memorial Park, Milford, Massachusetts. (1912)